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When the Stuxnet worm attacked the Bashehr Nuclear Energy facility in Iran last year, it also attacked four other organizations in the country – except it didn’t strike them randomly as the virus was randomly and accidentally spread. The virus was directed specifically at those five organizations, and the attacks started in 2008 – more than a year before it was first detected in its supposedly more benign form before presumably being taken up by intelligence organizations and warped into a nuke-hacking weapon.

Much more dangerous, much more intentional, and much more directable than appeared to be the case before.

Stuxnet, remember, was the first worm to be effective when directed against civil engineering targets as well as digital ones, potentially expanding cyberwar attacks beyond the Internet and into the real world.